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State laws that perpetuate structural racism and health inequity have an impact on high premature mortality rates.

One year after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe, the Better Life Lab team talks about the urgent need for paid leave and abortion rights.

Proactive policing, such as pedestrian and traffic stops, is a crime prevention tactic that relies on police officer discretion to stop and search individuals they consider suspicious. A recently published study in the journal of the American Public Health Association, looking at proactive policing and preterm birth rates in New Orleans, shows that Black residents living in neighborhoods experiencing high levels of proactive policing were about three times as likely to give birth preterm (before 37 weeks) as their white neighbors.

As painful as breakups can be, they can be transformative — but only if we use that tender time as an opportunity for some deep soul-searching.